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...conjunction with other western countries, the United States responded to Mexico's troubles with a patchwork bailout plan consisting of emergency food import credits, advance payments for Mexican crude oil, and $1.85 billion in loans from western central banks. But the real keys to the bailout were two longer-term proposals designed to restore Mexico's ability to pay off its debt in the future: $5 billion in credits from the International Monetary Fund and a $10 billion moratorium on debt repayments to major private banks. Both of these key provisions are contingent upon Mexico's acceptance of a stringent...
Your article falsely states that ranchers are dependent on federal land because private land is overgrazed. The reason for the dependency is the patchwork nature of real estate ownership in the West. Ranchers need the public areas to tie the scattered tracts of private land together. There is no profit in overgrazing. If a steer has to walk 100 yds. to get a mouthful, he isn't going to get fat. My family has been on the same ranch for 93 years. If we had abused the land, we would have had to move long...
...Israelis' view, such a regime would promote stability, keep the leftist Arab elements in check and prevent a Palestinian threat from returning to their border. But the idea of a strong central government may prove to be a chimera: Lebanese society has always been a patchwork of different feudal, regional and religious communities whose rivalries have sparked internecine clashes for generations. The departure of the P.L.O. will not change that pattern. Moreover, many observers in Beirut fear that the election of Gemayel, whose Christian supporters constitute a minority of Lebanon's population, would bring about a renewal...
...fifth round, Holmes rose up on his toes and began to dance lightly and smile occasionally. His hands gathered speed, and Cooney became especially hittable. By the sixth, Rappaport and co-Manager Mike Jones had to make room in the corner for Cutman Artie Curley, whose patchwork was inspected once by the physician at ringside. In the 90° desert heat, aggravated by the television lights, both men sprayed sweat like revolving lawn sprinklers. Holmes, 6 ft. 3 in. and 212½ lbs., and Cooney, 6 ft. 6 in. and 225½ lbs., looked equally fit. Cooney, who lad never...
...William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes and invocations to the muses live in the actors' exclamations. As in the original, the responsibility of poets and the need for art are stressed, but never do these morals clash with the patchwork comedy that mingles ancient Greeks with modern Irishmen and spans centuries of theater...